Google Reader invades your privacy and it’s not going to stop

This highlights a problem that is almost always ignored by the people flogging online services: that you are making yourself completely dependent on them. They can change the service however they like, without asking you first. In reality, you probably don’t even have copies of your own data, and can lose access to it at any time. (You should have, but I bet you don’t.)—Google Reader invades your privacy and it’s not going to stop